Timeline for Is it okay for an elderly cat to be sleeping in the litterbox?
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| Dec 23, 2013 at 14:20 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Well, he's had his visit, and there was indeed a problem; he's probably got an overactive thyroid, indirectly causing him to lose his eyesight. Stressful indeed! It is treatable, he'll be fine. | |
| Dec 23, 2013 at 14:17 | vote | accept | Martijn Pieters | ||
| Dec 19, 2013 at 15:08 | comment | added | Zaralynda | @MartijnPieters It sounds like a heated bed is a good place to start, given the changes! However, I would still encourage you to schedule a vet visit. Cats are very good at hiding illnesses, and you may not know there's a problem until it's too late. | |
| Dec 19, 2013 at 9:31 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | No, the behaviour started much later. That said, it can be a factor still. A culmination of contributing factors, as it where. We lost another of our cats to cancer a month or two before the move, and she was his best friend, for example. With a different social place, a different home, plus perhaps another stress factor, the litter tray could be the stress reliever now. We are getting him warmed bed and see if that helps. | |
| Dec 19, 2013 at 0:06 | comment | added | Spidercat | Did the behavior start when you moved? Moving can be stressful to cats, and the litter box would be a familiar place. | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 23:44 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | There might be a correlation there! The weather has been changing, we moved from Norway to the UK this summer, and the weather here in Cambridgeshire is damper; we noticed the house cools down faster than we were used to in Norway. We'll see if providing him with some kind of heated bedding helps. | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 23:19 | history | answered | Zaralynda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |